Thomas Malet
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Sir Thomas Malet was a judge, Solicitor general to Queen Henrietta Maria
Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria of France ; was the Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I...

 and a politician. His home was in Poyntington
Poyntington
Poyntington is a village in north west Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale two miles north of Sherborne. The village has a population of 135.The parish was part of the hundred of Horethorne....

, but he inherited lands in Somerset known as St Audries
St Audries Park
St Audries Park Manor house at West Quantoxhead in the Quantock Hills of Somerset, England the manor house of the Aclands was rebuilt on the site of an earlier house, between 1835 and 1870 and has had a number of owners since Sir Alexander sold the building....

. His wife was Susan Mills.

He was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1642 for two years during the English Civil War. He lost his second son Baldwin Malet to the Parliamentarians when Baldwin was 20. Malet was rewarded with a patent of baronetcy by Charles II
Charles II of England
Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

but it was never given the royal seal as Malet died in 1665 leaving the estate to his son John.
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